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The Praying Scholar

Daily prayer is the means by which we renew ourselves. Prayer is a reaching out to God, a response to God’s blessings. Prayer involves asking God what God already knows you will ask. God wishes us to ask for prayers for … Continue reading →

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Georges Lemaître and the Big Bang: The Limits of Piety

Georges Lemaître was a Catholic priest and military veteran who in the 1920s and 1930s made astonishing theoretical discoveries that overturned the steady-state universe, the eternal unchanging universe that astronomers had believed in for millennia. Father Lemaître argued that the … Continue reading →

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Do not Fear Death, because Perfect Love Casts out Fear

Death is the last act of life that occurs in an instant in time, yet it opens to eternity. Hence the moment and the eternal are combined at once in death. Death is a time when our perceptions of life … Continue reading →

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Robert Hamilton, Baptist Missionary, and the Jesus Road

Robert Hamilton, a friend and associate of Mary P. Jayne and Joseph S. Murrow, was one of the first missionaries sent by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to western Oklahoma; Hamilton worked with the Cheyenne and Arapaho people from … Continue reading →

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Behold, The Handmaid of the Lord

Never has there been a more pure and holy place, one marked by God’s love and will. It is a wilderness of utter security, warmth, and peace, an environment of darkness, stillness of time, space, and consciousness. There, in the … Continue reading →

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New England Missionaries and the American Indians

We have been broken up and moved six times. We have been despoiled of our property. We thought when we moved across Missouri River and had paid for our home in Kansas we were safe, but in a few years … Continue reading →

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Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth Who was Jesus?                Jesus the son of Joseph and Mary was born in the town of Bethlehem in Judaea around four to six B. C., or according to the Roman dating system of the time, 747 … Continue reading →

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The Jesus Road

In the early 1830s, physician, scientist, and neophyte missionary Jean Louis Berlandier watched as his friend, an unnamed Kickapoo Indian, lay dying. The Kickapoo gave off a fierce appearance in his dress, paint, and bearing; he was a skilled hunter; … Continue reading →

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Ignatius of Loyola, Soldier for Christ

Ignatius of Loyola was a soldier for Navarre, Spain, who became a soldier for Christ. Recovering from battle wounds at his family’s castle in Loyola in the Basque region of Spain, he experienced conversion in which he renounced his former … Continue reading →

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Martyr for Christ: Jean de Brébeuf (1593-1649)

The images of the great martyrs of the past, those disciples and followers of Christ who committed their all—body and soul—to the Great Commission, to spread the word to all creatures worldwide, inspired Jean de Brébeuf as a young man … Continue reading →

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